Wall Street Journal: What's News Europe
- Italy Allows Illegal Homes to Be Rebuilt, Earthquake Zone or Not
Sunday - 03/03/2019 - 04:05 PMItalian politicians have a long record of granting amnesties allowing homes in earthquake-hit areas to be rebuilt. The upstart government was supposed to change that, but it has bowed to local pressure—a sign of how Italian political habits die hard.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Kiki Smith Doesn't Identify as a Feminist Artist
Friday - 03/01/2019 - 01:03 PMAhead of her new show at Pace Gallery, Smith talked to WSJ. about her favorite drafting tool and her greatest superstition
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House Panel Presses White House for Security-Clearance Documents
Friday - 03/01/2019 - 08:57 PMThe House Oversight Committee renewed its request to the White House for documents related to the administration’s security-clearance processes, following reports that President Trump ordered his former chief of staff to grant his son-in-law a top-secret security clearance.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chinese Banks Will Rise or Fall With the Property Market
Thursday - 02/28/2019 - 10:51 AMBeijing wants to change China’s mix of lending to businesses. Property prices, though, will remain the key driver for shares of the country’s banks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - French Support for Yellow Vests Cools
Monday - 02/25/2019 - 04:37 PMThe French public has begun to turn against the yellow vest movement, with a new poll for the first time showing majority supporting an end to the protests. The shift in sentiment offers a sign of relief for President Macron.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pound Rally Breaks Investors' Brexit Boredom
Tuesday - 02/26/2019 - 06:39 PMWith weeks to go until Britain is officially scheduled to leave the European Union, politics has finally—slightly—jolted investors out of a prevailing mood of Brexit boredom.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - British Split Over Brexit Forms Deep Political Fissures
Sunday - 02/24/2019 - 11:49 AMPro-Brexit activists are mobilizing across Britain to ensure the country leaves the European Union as scheduled on March 29 amid competing efforts to push a new referendum, forcing a once-in-a-generation shift in British politics.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - May's Grip on Power Weakens as Lawmakers Quit Over Brexit
Wednesday - 02/20/2019 - 04:59 PMThree lawmakers quit British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party over Brexit, a move that further adds to the precariousness of her grip on power and underlines how the decision to leave the European Union is reshaping British politics.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Prince Philip Won't Be Charged Over Car Crash
Thursday - 02/14/2019 - 09:23 AMBritish prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Prince Philip, the 97-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, after he was involved in a car crash near the royal estate in Sandringham last month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Italy's Far-Right Firebrand Takes Aim at Europe
Wednesday - 02/13/2019 - 11:05 AMInterior Minister Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s ruling League party, has tapped into Italian anger at the country’s ineffectual political establishment. But a look at his decisions in power suggests he is more of a pragmatist than his rhetoric implies.
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- Following the Tourist Trail to Macau Looks Like the Best Bet
Friday - 03/01/2019 - 05:36 AMGambling revenue growth has stalled in the semiautonomous Chinese city, but casinos more geared to the mass market could still do well.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Left Behind in a Nationwide Jobs Recovery: Charleston, W.Va.
Friday - 03/01/2019 - 03:01 PMWest Virginia’s dependence on increasingly out-of-favor coal has left a workforce that is ill-equipped to attract advanced jobs in technology and manufacturing that are key to prospering in today’s economy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jobless Claims Rose in Mid-February
Thursday - 02/28/2019 - 11:48 AMThe number of Americans filing applications for new unemployment benefits increased last week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russia Names Potential U.S. Targets of Nuclear Retaliation
Monday - 02/25/2019 - 12:52 PMA top Russian state television broadcaster held out the possibility of a nuclear exchange with the U.S., boasting that the Kremlin could retaliate with strikes on the Pentagon and Camp David.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.K. Labour Party Would Back Second Brexit Referendum
Monday - 02/25/2019 - 05:53 PMThe U.K.’s main opposition Labour Party said it would support holding a second Brexit referendum, a policy shift that breathes some life into the prospect of Britons voting again on whether the U.K.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- U.K.'s May Paves Way for Brexit Delay
Tuesday - 02/26/2019 - 08:12 PMPrime Minister Theresa May will allow parliament to vote on delaying the U.K.’s exit from the EU if lawmakers reject her divorce agreement, greatly reducing the possibility of an exit without a deal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bankers Don't Flee London, Despite Exodus Predictions
Friday - 02/22/2019 - 01:25 PMA month before the U.K. is set to leave the European Union, a long-feared exodus of financiers from London hasn’t yet materialized.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vatican Envoy to France Is Investigated for Sexual Assault Charge
Friday - 02/15/2019 - 03:01 PMFrench authorities placed the Vatican’s envoy to France under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a local Paris official last month, the latest in a string of embarrassing episodes involving Holy See diplomats.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. Rejects New European Dirty-Money Blacklist
Thursday - 02/14/2019 - 01:14 PMThe revised list, released Wednesday, results from efforts by the EU to tighten longstanding measures against money laundering and terrorism financing since the publication of the Panama Papers in 2016, which revealed how global elites avoided taxes or laundered money through offshore shell companies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - European Union Agrees to New Copyright Law
Wednesday - 02/13/2019 - 06:48 PMThe bill is aimed at reining in tech giants and throwing a lifeline to news publishers. It is expected to be formally approved by mid-April, after which EU governments will have two years to include it in their national laws.
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- U.S. Stocks Unchanged on Economic Data
Friday - 03/01/2019 - 06:17 PMU.S. stocks rebounded Friday, propelled by a rise in energy shares as investors analyzed a batch of new economic data and waited for signs on U.S.-China trade talks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fed's Bostic: Inflation to Pick Up
Friday - 03/01/2019 - 05:28 PMAtlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said Friday that wage growth appears to be picking up, and he expects inflation to follow suit later this year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russia Firms Up Support for Venezuela's Crisis-Hit Government
Friday - 03/01/2019 - 01:39 PMMoscow pledged much-needed international support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s embattled government while the U.S. announced a new round of sanctions, as a bitter standoff intensifies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cardinal George Pell Found Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Choirboys
Tuesday - 02/26/2019 - 08:25 AMThe most senior Vatican official to ever stand trial on child sex-abuse charges was found guilty of assaulting two choirboys at a church in his former diocese.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Holding Its Tongue on Democracy, EU Presses Arab Leaders to Stem Migration
Tuesday - 02/26/2019 - 07:28 PMEuropean Union officials used a first-of-its-kind summit in Egypt this week to press Arab leaders to impose stability and stem migration but played down calls for democracy, reflecting a desire for calm after years of border tumult.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pope's Abuse Stance Leaves Some Disappointed
Sunday - 02/24/2019 - 07:47 PMPope Francis strongly condemned sexual abuse but offered no specific solutions, disappointing clergy and laypeople who had hoped for a breakthrough at an unprecedented global summit to address the crisis in the Catholic Church.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - After Confronting Macron, France's Yellow Vest Movement Turns on Itself
Saturday - 02/23/2019 - 06:54 PMThe protest movement is bitterly divided over whether to coalesce into a formal organization or keep its antiestablishment roots, as it presses President Macron for change
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - EU's Trade Surplus With U.S., a Bone of Contention for Trump, Hits Record
Friday - 02/15/2019 - 12:21 PMThe European Union reported a record trade surplus with the U.S. last year, a development that could weigh on slow-moving U.S.-EU trade talks and comes as the Trump administration prepares to deliberate hefty tariffs on European car imports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sweden Recalls Ambassador to China in Twist in Bookseller's Detention
Thursday - 02/14/2019 - 05:33 PMSweden has recalled its ambassador to China and opened an internal investigation into her role in arranging a meeting where Chinese businessmen allegedly threatened the daughter of a detained Swedish bookseller, Sweden’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Brexit Deadline Nears, EU Loses Confidence in May
Wednesday - 02/13/2019 - 04:15 PMAs the clock ticks down on the U.K.’s planned departure from the European Union, EU leaders are still waiting for a signal from British Prime Minister Theresa May on the next steps in negotiating a critical divorce deal.
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